-------She had decided to start with what should have been the simpler of the two drakes. As simple as a creature that could snap her neck with a single bite could be at least.

Dragging him to the pit had almost cost her tail, unable to drug him for fear that it might react badly with the ones the pit used, the armor she wore as she alternately lured and fought him keeping her from too much harm. Then they had gotten there, and the pit crew had drugged into a deep sleep, deep enough for her not only to strap on all of the gear meant to hinder him but to also double check that his and her straps would not come loose. She did not want the saddle to go sliding off as he took a single step, now did she?

He started to twitch and rumble as she tugged on the straps covering his thorn of a tail to assure herself that he would not poison her, and she rushed to climb onto his back. Securely in the saddle, she touched the lucky leaf charm she had persuaded a soft-skin to let her borrow for her breakings, hopeful that it would be enough. It likely had some form of magic in it, but she rather suffer from that than her soul enslaved.

((Ready, no rp please. If the dagger cannot be used to stab at the back while on the back, please let me know. If there is a discussion being had about it specifically that might take a while, I am more than willing to not use it to let the breaking start/finish sooner.))

Post by Haix on Mar 1, 2020 23:10:57 GMT -6

((Understood.))

The goal now was to issue a screech of challenge to start it off right, much like the one she had accidentally terrified him once with before he had been fully grown, and she opened her jaws as she prepared to give a good one.

But as she opened her mouth, his muscles tensed beneath her legs, the bindings creaking as the new leather stretched, and she gripped the saddle between her claws all the tighter. At that moment, before she could do anything more than tuck her head in and inhale for her intended screech, he seemed to sag beneath her, tipping to one side. And in the next, the bulk of the sarane was pressing into her chest as she lay pinned beneath him, her armor uncomfortably tight as it had been the first time she had tried it on, the sand filling her mouth and choking her.

And before that crushing fear had time to be fully realized, she was flung upright, the sand she was spitting mingling with that of the thin lines trailing her armor as the sarane resumed his previous upright position. Spitting out the last of the sand, she shut her mouth with a click of her teeth, a chuckle trapped behind them.

Post by Haix on Mar 1, 2020 23:32:48 GMT -6

In return for her laugh, the sarane decided to snap his own neck.

At least that was what she thought had happened, the pillow-like horn covers whipping back with the rest of his head a to miss her helmet by a few inches, the only thing touching her face the slight breeze it had generated. All she could see from the slits of her helmet was the brown leather, and she had a moment to wonder if he would stop short the next time. Even with the covers, she doubted it would feel good to butt her head with his horns. The horns were gone a blink of her eyes later, his head proving to still be attached to his very unbroken neck as stopped its momentum just as quickly. She tried to remember if all drake breakings were quite so stationary, wishing he would actually move around the arena rather than sit there rolling and flailing like a dying animal.

Post by Haix on Mar 1, 2020 23:43:31 GMT -6

As if her had heard her, the sarane's muscles bunched and stretched beneath her, but he did not run and hop around the arena quite as she had hoped. Instead he started to turn, and rather than stop turning when he faced whatever he was searching for, he kept turning faster and faster, making her stomach twist as it did the few times she rode her vespa in the air. She shut her eyes, aware that she would not be able to see whatever was coming but there was nothing to see, just the blur of sand and walls and lights. Bile rose in her throat and was choked back down, as much as to keep her meal as it was because she would not open her mouth for another taste of sand.

It was when he finally stopped that she almost fell off of his back, head still spinning as she blinked and swayed.

Post by Haix on Mar 1, 2020 23:53:12 GMT -6

The spin had ended near one of the walls, walls made to keep in even raging sarane and massive pliathor. The walls had been made to withstand all kinds of attacks, and anything that hit them would lose. Something that Haix was able to experience rather quickly as the sarane swung himself, and, by extension her, into it.

The armor held for a moment, cushioning her leg, proving the skill of the soft-skin smith. But it only took a heartbeat longer for the pressure to turn to pain, no amount of squirming enough to pull it free. There was no thoughts about taming the sarane then, just breaking free and she almost released the saddle to start clawing at him, almost ready to open her jaws and bite down, anything to drive him back. But then he moved from the wall of his own free will, and the only hide her claws dug into was that of the long dead thundergug that made the saddle.

Post by Renathan on Mar 2, 2020 0:06:38 GMT -6

Calculations

Iago uses throw!

For each point in Dexterity Haix has, a coin has been flipped.Of the 4 coins, 1 was heads. Using a saddle doubles this, bringing the total to 2.2 vs. Iago's Dexterity of 2; a coin has been flipped-Haix barely manages to stay in the saddle.

Post by Haix on Mar 2, 2020 0:09:15 GMT -6

Her leg hurt, and she refused to look at it. It had been far too long since one of her own creatures had hurt her in any serious way, and the last time he had tried had resulted in an impromptu flying lesson for him into a couch. The armor had likely kept her skin and scales from being left on the pit walls, and though her blood might be leaking into the sands, this was not the first time a sarane had injured her in the pit, nor was it even the worst. So she would not look and instead be prepared for whatever the sarane threw at her.

At that point, the sarane began hopping beneath her, little, almost comedic hops that made her leg flare with pain. Then cam the full expression of his mad rage, and she quite forgot about her leg as she tried to prevent him from sending her on her own flying lesson. He bounced around the arena, kicking up sprays of sand into her eyes and threatening to tear free of her grasp with every hop.

When he gave up, she could not help but giggle behind her clenched teeth. It was a good thing he had stopped, there was not even a couch for her to land on here.

Post by Haix on Mar 2, 2020 0:17:05 GMT -6

How long did breaking a drake take? She tried to recall what she had seen from the few breakings she had seen years ago, of how long the sarane tended to last. She could not tell how long it had been since she had climbed onto his back to begin the breaking, the moments of her leg being crushed melding with the silly little hops that had caused the pain to flare.

Amused as the gods must have been by her little joke about the couch, Haix was granted the experience of getting to know the front inside of her helmet intimately as the sarane had the couch. The padded horns had smashed it down onto her face, allowing her to feel every ridge and edge of leather that it contained. But it did nothing more than that, the pressure disappearing and the helmet ungluing itself from her face so that, luckily, she could see out of the eye slits in it once more.

Post by Renathan on Mar 2, 2020 0:22:51 GMT -6

Calculations

Iago uses Tail SwipeIago wins the coin toss! He whacks Haix with his tail.Since he has a tail guard on, no poison is transferred.Iago's strength of 3 vs Haix's Strength and Stamina together of 8.Haix's is greater! She manages to stay on but takes -1 Stamina of damage.Haix now has 4 Stamina

Post by Haix on Mar 2, 2020 0:24:45 GMT -6

And then an instant later, as if the side of the helmet had been jealous of the front pressing uncomfortably against her face, something slammed it into her, crushing her frills and forcing from her the first gasp of pain. Her head went with the helmet as whatever it was buffeted her to the side, arms stretching to their limit as she tried to keep her balance on his back. Had it continued with the same strength, she would have been forced off, and she was certain that, regardless of her armor, she would have died had her body tried to remain rigid against the hit.

Whatever had hit did not continue to push her though, and she had a precious few seconds to pull herself back into a better position as she realized there was only one thing that could have hit her. And at that moment, she was extraordinarily glad she had purchased a tail cover despite only one sarane needing it.

Shoutbox

Morgan: No one knows yet. But I did want to make it clear that the jar itself isn't used for lotine husbandry in any way. c:Jun 5, 2020 4:24:19 GMT -6*

Twilight-Claw: I'm only assuming that it does something similar like a Fungal Beast that infects a Leaf-scatter. (the one with moss and I think it was a pink flower growing on the head.)Jun 5, 2020 4:18:34 GMT -6

Morgan: The lolatic doesn't disappear after one use, and can be reused on the same lotine when it is allowed to 'infect' a lotine- to my knowledge.Jun 5, 2020 1:41:37 GMT -6

Morgan: The only effect/thing that the jar can be used for is to open up into a lolatic. The jar itself has no use in lotine breedings.Jun 5, 2020 1:39:52 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: and the jar is then gone, if with the creature I am more guessing with this the creature doesn't disappear and it has unlimited use.Jun 5, 2020 0:17:55 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: Something else I am wondering about with the Lotine breeding is whether one would use the jar the Lolatic comes from in the breeding, or actually the creature itself. I'm assuming with it if its the jar, then it gives people only one shot in a breeding, Jun 5, 2020 0:16:08 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: Then using it in my rps is definitely just for the sake of rp's and not for anything additional. Jun 5, 2020 0:12:17 GMT -6

Renathan: There's no additional effect for adding a fish to a magical berry in a lotine breeding. Magical Berry is kinda it's own thing. Adding a fish for roleplay value shouldn't hurt, but it has no effect when used on a magical berry lotine breeding.Jun 4, 2020 22:27:14 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: be just for the sake of rp, and perhaps seeing if it might lent a bigger chance to multiple offspring with unique pattern. X3Jun 4, 2020 15:31:01 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: I think your right on it being unlimited use yeah, although.. *cough* I only found out a couple hours after I started writing that I had yet to buy the fish in question so used the one you could get for free as a replacement, it still was meant to mostly Jun 4, 2020 15:30:59 GMT -6

Riku: From what I loosely understand about the fish is that it isn't one-use, whereas the berry is. I feel like there wouldn't be any consequence of 'using' the fish...which I'd think just ooc wouldn't be counted for whatever rolls or whatever it is that it usesJun 3, 2020 14:14:30 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: Thanks for that piece of info Ren! <3 | But would it be allowed for the flavor of the rp if the berry wasn't filling enough for the Lotine? Jun 1, 2020 6:09:21 GMT -6*

Renathan: There is no need to double up on a fish and a magical berry (doesn't change the effect of the berry at all) in a lotine breeding.Jun 1, 2020 6:02:21 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: Does anyone know if it is possible to combine both a magical berry and a fish in a Lotine breeding? Or is you can only choose one of them? (right now writing a Lotine breeding) Jun 1, 2020 5:36:49 GMT -6

Twilight-Claw: I am still interested in trading it for a green drake. Jun 1, 2020 0:31:33 GMT -6